ASUS VivoTab Smart ME400C - Problems Thread

So far I haven't noticed the black screen issue after playing with a fresh Windows 8 install on my tablet. There was one time it did occur, but it went away relatively quickly. Surprisingly, as soon as I took the tablet out of the case it started working again.

I looked further into this, and there are certain 'pressure points' near the bottom of the tablet's front (left and right of the Windows key), that if you push on it a certain way, the screen glitches out briefly. I'm thinking there might be a loose connector or cable under it, which maybe the case I had on was agitating. So it very well could be a hardware problem. Since removing it from the case, everything on it has been perfect. If you have a case and the same problem, try removing the case.

As for Windows 8.1 Preview and battery issues, maybe it's just because it's the preview edition? It's a pre-release OS, so there's probably still bugs in it. Try Windows Update, or messing with your power options a bit.

Can somebody tell me which of drivers I have to download from asus website because I downloaded one and the problem ''Plugged in not charging'' is not fixed!!!!! I'm asking because they have many drivers and I don't know which of them are the right one!!!!

I have had my ASUS Vivo Tab Smart ME 400C for 8 weeks, in that time it has frozen several times, refused to boot up, crashed whilst using skype (without the video), Would not let me enter text in some areas of the screen, became sluggish every few minutes whilst writing someone a message, would not let me start up skype, had to be put back to default (manufacturers) settings 3 times to get it to work, each time I had to re install the new Office 365 and skype and any other apps I had installed.

This last time I had had enough, I am working in Kazakhstan and I need a communication device as well as my Galaxy Smart Phone, I could not last night start it up, I was concerned because my passwords and login credentials were saved for several bank accounts and credit cards, do I trust repair men with this? certainly not ASUS anymore, I needed it to be reliable and this tablet was not, maybe I could use it as a new bread board, however I trashed it. I will never buy anything from ASUS again, I have always bought HP and Toshiba.....I have to buy a new notebook tomorrow in Amsterdam, thank you ASUS for wasting 8 weeks of my time and 450 GBP ($720).

Ok where do I start.. I've had this thing for about 6 months and I had issues from day one where I sent back my first unit for replacement after it would frequently 'repair' my installation of windows when trying to turn the thing on. I honestly think these devices are just broken from day one and the problem is I don't know if it's the Asus hardware at fault or Windows 8 which is causing it.

The biggest issue I have with the replacement is I will often find it turned completely off when I pull it out to use it, despite sometimes putting it to sleep moments earlier. One time I was just sitting it down on the desk and I noticed the display went off (but my iPhone was still plugged in and syncing via iTunes and charging at the same time) and nothing would get it to wake up again so had to hold the power button down and restart the damn thing. The bluetooth is buggy and makes the bluetooth mouse I am using jittery and often unresponsive for moments at a time despite the transleeve keyboard/mouse still working during that time, or sometimes it will just decide that neither the separate bt mouse and the transleeve will work and I have to either restart the device or disable/enable bluetooth.

I've always had the 'plugged in, not charging' fault but didn't really worry much about it as it would still charge up (slowly) over night when not using it. And now just recently after updating to Windows 8.1 (unsure if it's related or not) but the lower right hand side of the screen is unresponsive to touch but will sometimes come right, so don't know if it's a Windows 8.1 thing or how the screen is held or the case is twisted a certain way.

Either way I dread using this thing these days as it's just a pain in the ass to use. It just simply is a half-baked product and can not truly be used as a tablet, more so a problematic Windows PC in a small form factor. I have seriously gone off Asus products now, especially after using a friends brand new Asus laptop (ok so it was a cheap model) but even from new it had issues with the worst of it being an unresponsive track pad (and why do manufacturers insist on making the buttons part of the track pad itself, you cannot keep the cursor still when trying to left or right click!)

if i connect my Asus Vivotab Smart to my tv fullhd LG with hdmi out not works, tv not detect any input,
is possible problem is cable hdmi + microhdmi adapter?
With my android mobile sony xperia P this cable works correct and show in tv.

I stupidly wiped out my windows recovery environment partition and need the partition info for it. Particularly the GUID/type and attributes. I believe it's unique to facilitate the push button reset [power up arrow].

Would someone with a ME400C be so kind as to run the following commands and then provide me with the results. The partition I am interested in is the 300 - 350 MB one, not the 8GB recovery partition.

I am using 8.1 and Live Update to 4.0, problems so far are the already known video driver (using previous driver is by now better ) and that connected but not charging (replacing the original cable apparently solved )... i installed asphalt 7 afer update and doesn't work (i thinkl is 8.1 problem).... WiFi, Bluetooth hdmi are ok.